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From its opening pages, in which she recounts her own premature birth, triggered by terrifying rumors of an incipient pogrom, Bernstein's tale is clearly not a typical memoir of the Holocaust. She was born into a large family in rural Romania and grew up feisty and willing to fight back physically against anti-Semitism from other schoolchildren. She defied her father's orders to turn down a scholarship that took her to Bucharest, and got herself expelled from that school when she responded to a priest/teacher's vicious diatribe against the Jews by hurling a bottle of ink at him. After a series of incidents that ranged from dramatic escapes to a year in a forced labor detachment, Sara ended up in Ravensbruck, a women's concentration camp, and managed to survive. She tells this story with style and power.
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp), Biography, Courage, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Jews, Personal narratives, Holocausts survivors, Biographies, Defying bigots, Juifs, Judenverfolgung, Holocauste, 1939-1945, Récits personnels, Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), personal narratives, Auschwitz (concentration camp), Jews, romaniaPlaces
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The seamstress: a memoir of survival
1999, Berkley Books
in English
- Berkley trade paperback ed.
0425166309 9780425166307
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"ROUNDING A CURVE IN THE PATH, I SAW IT-A LONG caravan of gaily colored covered wagons."
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